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Amina Gautier

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New York, The United States

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Fiction

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Amina Gautier is the author of the short story collections At-Risk, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award (University of Georgia Press, 2011), Now We Will Be Happy, Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), and The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press, 2016. She has published over ninety short stories. They appear in Agni, Best African American Fiction, Callaloo, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Stories From the South, Notre Dame Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Storyquarterly among other places. ...more

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New flash fiction piece "Surely, Not" at Boston Review. Click link to read:

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Average rating: 4.03 · 731 ratings · 145 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	At-Risk 3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loss of All Lost Things 3.99 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now We Will Be Happy 3.99 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best That You Can Do: Stories 3.83 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction by Megan Giddings (Editor), George Abraham, Reem Abu-Baker 4.48 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good by H.L. Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Janet Shell Anderson 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author), Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynn Freed (Contributor), Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Healing Visions by Randall Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Boscov (Photographer), Roberta Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prairie Schooner (Spring 2015) by Amina Gautier (Goodreads Author), Aurvi Sharma, Vandana Khanna 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.”
― Amina Gautier, At-Risk

tags: limbo, reality, romance, solitude, youth

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“But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath”
― Amina Gautier, At-Risk

tags: humor, irony-of-life

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